Fri Dec 2, 2022 – 9:42 am EST
(The Daily Sceptic) — New evidence indicates that millions of bats are being slaughtered every year by wind turbines.
This astonishing figure of wildlife massacre arises from a reasonable extrapolation of casualty numbers collected by a group of German zoologists. Their data cover a number of years, and more specifically a recent two-month detailed survey at a wind farm near Berlin. Germany has nearly 30,000 onshore wind turbines, and the researchers suggested their findings translated to 200,000 bat fatalities every year in that country alone. Land-based wind turbines are common across many parts of the world, and a total figure running into millions is possible.
The researchers noted that the annual German losses of bats will “cause a decline of populations of high collision-risk species.” They warn that this population decline “could manifest rapidly,” since mostly females and juvenile bats get killed by turbines. Bats have low reproductive rates and may not be able to compensate quickly for the casualties, they wrote.
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The paper is of considerable interest and the full methodology of the field work, along with
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